The overnight lane closures that were scheduled to get underway tonight for the 2014 stage of the Easton‐Phillipsburg (Route 22) Toll Bridge Rehabilitation Project have been postponed to Tuesday due to the weather, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced today, March 3.

Although the region was spared of any appreciable snowfall amounts today, tonight’s weather forecast calls for single‐digit and subzero temperatures and northerly winds up to 10 miles an hour. As a result of the one-day postponement, this week’s single-lane travel patterns along Route 22 in the project area will be as follows:

• Tuesday, March 4, through Thursday, March 6: 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.

• Friday, March 7: 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

• Saturday, March 8: 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.

The eastbound single-lane travel restriction will begin at Cemetery Curve and extend across the bridge. The westbound single-lane travel restriction will begin before the toll plaza and extend across the bridge. The lane closures will enable work crews to install a two-tiered, tarp-enshrouded containment/work platform along a large portion of the bridge’s superstructure.

Once in place, it will enable work crews to prepare and repaint the bridge’s massive steel truss during the spring and summer months. Work crews also will be engage in project-­‐setup activities in the area of the toll plaza during this initial lane-closure period. Round-the-clock lane closures in the project area are expected to begin later in the month